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Washington, United States: As fire-wrecked Los Angeles braces for a visit by President Donald Trump, many are worrying the mercurial Republican will yank the federal support the city needs to get back on its feet. Trump is due in the shell-shocked city for a few hours…
Malibu: As he looks at the ruins of his home razed when deadly fires tore through the Los Angeles area, Sebastian Harrison knows it will never be the same again, because he was not insured. “I knew it was risky, but I had no choice,” he…
Terrified residents caught in blazing neighbourhoods, influencers ignoring the ban on drones and the frightening unpredictability of the wildfires are just some of what journalists covering the fires ravaging Los Angeles for AFP have had to manage. The United States’s second-largest city has never faced a…
CLAIM Taylor Swift has called the Los Angeles wildfires a payback to the US for supporting Israel on Gaza bombings. FACT CHECK The video is a deepfake, using AI to falsely attribute comments to Taylor Swift. She did not make these statements. Social media is rife…
Los Angeles: Los Angeles firefighters braced on Tuesday for a new round of intense winds that could fuel two monstrous wildfires that have already killed at least 24 people, levelled entire neighbourhoods and scorched an area the size of Washington, D.C. Much of Los…
New Delhi: Los Angeles authorities have warned that conditions are expected to worsen in the coming days. Sixteen deaths have been confirmed, and over 12,000 structures have been damaged or destroyed, in raging wildfires that started last week. Here are 10 points on this big story:…
Los Angeles: Winds were expected to drop Friday around Los Angeles, bolstering a huge firefighting effort at the five major blazes wreaking havoc around America’s second biggest city. At least ten people have died as infernos ripped through neighborhoods, razing thousands of homes in one of…
Paris: Ten people dead, 10,000 buildings destroyed, 180,000 people evacuated, $150 billion in damage. Here are the main figures showing the scale of the massive wildfires that have engulfed Los Angeles County since Tuesday. Five blazes ongoing Los Angeles is being ravaged by five different big…
At least ten people have died in the wildfires ravaging Southern California since Wednesday, with thousands more impacted by the devastating flames. In a show of “solidarity”, the Israeli embassy in Washington voiced support for the residents, but their message has been met with significant backlash…
LA Palisades Wildfire: The Palisades Fire on the coast of Los Angeles has now spread over 15,800 acres between Malibu and Santa Monica. At least five people have been killed while over 150,000 people remain under evacuation orders. According to Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony…